198990 - constructor window.Selection confesses to be an object instead of function

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 71988

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Georg Maaß]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030315
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030315

The constructor function of the Selection object returned by window.getSelection
confesses to be an object instead of a function.

constructor functions are usually functions not objects.

I assume a bug in the prototype chain of Selection.
Selection has an enumerable property named prototype.
This is at least unusual. It is also unusual to implement a call operator for an
object.

There is probably a typo or something similiar in the source code that causes
this function to appear as an unusual object.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
a=getSelection();
alert(typeof a.constructor); // alerts "object"

Actual Results:  
alerts "object"

Expected Results:  
should alert "function

Comment 1

[Fabian Guisset]

dup of bug 71988. Please reopen if you don't agree, thanks!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71988 ***